Sacred psychiatry in ancient Greece

Sacred psychiatry in ancient Greece

From the ancient times, there are three basic approaches for the interpretation of the different psychic phenomena: the organic, the psychological, and the sacred approach. The sacred approach forms the primordial foundation for any psychopathological development, innate to the prelogical human mind. Until the second millennium B.C., the Great Mother ruled the Universe and shamans cured the dif...

Visualizing Ancient Greece: The Sacred Way Project

The archaeological material to be contained within the Sacred Way discs is to be structured into three main areas. The basic user experience will be that of a simulated walk through a photoreallstic reconstruction of the sanctuary site of Eleusis In the 5th century BC. At any point along the path, the user will be able to access detailed information in a variety of forms on different aspects of...

30. Visualising ancient Greece: computer graphics in the Sacred Way Project

The Sacred Way project is a cooperative international initiative for multimedia education in archaeology and Classical civilisation. The project is currently supported by the European Community COMETT II programme. Planned activities include seminars and courses, intended to introduce archaeologists, museum professionals and humanities educators to the techniques and potential of digital multim...

Plants in Ancient Greece

Suicide in ancient Greece.

The theme of suicide appears several times in ancient Greek literature. However, each such reference acquires special significance depending on the field from which it originates. Most of the information found in mythology, but the suicide in a mythological tale, although in terms of motivation and mental situation of heroes may be in imitation of similar incidents of real life, in fact is link...